Vagabond Multilingual Journal Spring 2014 | Page 21

A Lonely Typewriter
I bought an old typewriter at a garage sale last January. The thing looked like it was in
perfect condition, even if it was a few decades old. There really wasn’t any reason for me
to get a typewriter, but it did have that satisfying click-clack, and it was only a few dollars.
One of the family holding the garage sale told me it was left in someone’s will but no one
really had any use for it. Like you’d expect, it started gathering dust in a corner of my onebedroom apartme